Association of the United States Army

And we are joined now by Andy Lowery, CEO of the California-based company Epirus and a retired lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy.

We're here at the Association of the United States Army Conference, or AUSA, here in Washington, D.C.

Incredible event, tons of cool technology on display, including some of the counter drone tech that you all make right behind us here, Andy, which we'll talk more about in a minute.

But thank you so much for coming on the Threat Status Podcast.

And that's why it's my threat of the week.

So with that, thanks, Guy, for another week in the books.

A huge thanks to Andy Lowery from EPRS for that great conversation we had at AUSA recently.

And most of all, thanks to all of you, our listeners.

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Um, so let's, uh, one of the questions, uh, that was most illuminating in your, uh, talk to the APEX audience was about battlefield innovation.

Ev- everybody here including, uh, Secretary, uh, Hegseth, uh, last week at the Association of the United States Army's, uh, conference and, uh, trade show, where our coverage was sponsored by Lockheed Martin, um, you know, had, uh, the other service secretaries on stage and talked about the importance of the drone command, called it Project, uh, Agenкор, uh, and the importance of driving forward, uh, innovation in the drone space, and highlighting that the Ukrainians, you know, have this, uh, kind of a, a similar structure.

But it's similar, but it's also different.

This week on The Breakout, we're at AUSA.

Still!

This is the weekly breakout from Breaking Defense.

I'm Aaron Mehta.

And I'm Carley Welch.

We're here at AUSA, the Army's largest gathering, the largest defense conference in the U.S. every year.

It's been quite a couple of days, Carly.

It has been a long couple of days, but great.

Glad to be here.

Last week was the Association of the United States Army, or AUSA Conference, the big Army defense trade show here in DC, and it really put the defense budget back in the spotlight.

But before we get into some of the modernization initiatives that came up in the course of that week, remind us where Congress left the twenty twenty-seven Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills before they all headed off for recess.

Well, they left them on a lot of desks, and they are gathering dusk right now because, uh, with the elections coming up, there really has not been any action related to this.